Mexican lawmaker easily climbs the border wall

In an attempt to prove a point to US President Donald Trump, Mexican Congressman Braulio Guerra tweeted several photos of himself at the top of a 30-foot portion of the Mexico-U.S. border wall this Wednesday.

“I was able to scale it, climb it, and sit myself right here,” the congressman from Querétaro, in central Mexico, said in a video.

“It would be simple for me to jump into the United States, which shows that it is unnecessary and totally absurd to build a wall,” he added.

The Department of Homeland Security has only been able to secure $20 million in existing funds to put toward construction of the wall. The expected cost is believed to be in the neighborhood of $21 billion.